In March 2005, Agence France-Presse (AFP) sued Google for $17.5 million, alleging that Google News infringed on its copyright because “Google includes AFP’s photos, stories and news headlines on Google News without permission from Agence France Presse”. Historically users could choose to hide articles originating from a news source. The service covers news articles appearing within the past 44 days on various news websites. In 2020, Google announced they would be spending US$1 billion to work with publishers to create Showcases, “a new format for insightful feature stories”.

Pair the Google News mobile app with our Desktop website, news.google.com, and enjoy your personalized content across all your devices. Medical Dialogues, an Indian digital publication serving doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals with medical news and research updates, is building an AI-powered system that personalises content based on users’ specialties and reading behavior. An expansion of the service was announced on September 8, 2008, when Google News began to offer indexed content from scanned newspapers. A new law in Spain, lobbied for by the Spanish newspaper publishers’ association AEDE, required for news aggregators to pay news services for the right to use snippets of their stories on Google News. Google appeared to be backing away from the experiment, but now tells The Verge that its AI headlines in Google Discover are a feature, one that “performs well for user satisfaction.” I once again see lots of misleading claims every time I check my phone.

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Google News can personalize your news based on some of those activities. By adding MedCity News as a preferred source, you will Cut Through the Noise and ensure our latest stories and original commentary will appear more often in your “Top Stories” section. But with the sheer volume of news breaking every hour, the most important insights can sometimes get buried under a mountain of generic search results. As part of the measures announced on Tuesday, the regulator said Apple and Google had also committed not to use data gathered from third-party app developers in an unfair way. Usually, it is non-empty for top_news() and topic_headlines() feeds. “The phrase search (“) query term allows you to search for complete phrases by enclosing the phrases in quotation marks or by connecting them with hyphens.

Just the one code being given away when thousands of people are likely to get involved feels a bit stingy, although at the time of writing Ubisoft’s post hasn’t exactly blown up, so you might be in with a shot. And Google AI decided to advertise our big Verge Awards at CES 2026 story as “Robots & AI Take CES,” which was basically the opposite of our conclusion in that story. It characterizes these new offerings as “trending topics,” even though each “trending topic” presents itself as one of our stories, links to our stories, and uses our images, all without competent fact-checking to ensure the AI is getting them right.

Officer Josh Thompson of the 7th division, who was on the case, said the search DN-bloggen om Årstalänken led them to a house, and at that house, he was approached by a dog who took him to the missing child. The news we followed, the people we wanted to know, the culture we consumed — all this and more comes to light in Google’s “Year in Search” data. Google Maps renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in its app — but only for U.S. users.

Archival newspaper articles could still be accessed via the Google News Search page, but key functionalities such as the timeline view and ability to specify more than 10 results per page were removed. On June 6, 2006, Google News expanded, adding a News Archive Search feature, offering users historical archives going back more than 200 years from some of its sources. A pull-down menu at the top of search results enables users to specify the time period in which they wish to search for articles.

Users can request e-mail “alerts” on various keyword topics by subscribing to Google News Alerts. The feature’s launch in Australia came amid the implementation of the country’s News Media Bargaining Code; Google stated that it believed the Showcase program was in compliance with the Code. In October 2014, a group of German publishers granted Google a license to use snippets of their publications gratis; the group had first claimed that such snippets were illegal, and then complained when they were removed by Google.

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This second cohort follows the inaugural JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative which awarded 35 publishers from 22 countries grants. By translating existing data into practical insights, the framework will support future outreach strategies – including personalised newsletters – and contribute to a more sustainable financial model for non-profit independent journalism. Tempo, one of Indonesia’s most established independent news organisations, will create an intelligent platform that centralises five decades of archival content into a single Digital Asset Management system. The project includes a Slack-based companion that helps staff record impact in real time, while AI organises and analyses this information to reveal patterns in how coverage serves readers and communities. The Philippine digital news organisation Rappler is building Intelligent Reader Assistant that uses AI-driven recirculation to serve readers at every stage of engagement. Public Policy, an Italian news agency specialising in political and parliamentary reporting, is building Postilla AI, a platform that combines its live coverage of Italian and European institutions with official parliamentary documents and open political databases.

In Germany, their lobbying led to the introduction of the ancillary copyright for press publishers in 2013. … the Belgian judge took the view that Google’s reproduction without comment of parts of articles was not covered by this exception. On October 18, 2023 Google confirmed they cut at least 40 jobs in the news division. These hidden sources can still be listed in a user’s settings however these exclusions are no longer honoured. On July 14, 2011, Google introduced “Google News Badges”, which it later retired in October 2012. In October 2017, this program was replaced with a “flexible sampling” model in which each publisher chooses how many, if any, free articles were allowed.

• The service covers news articles appearing within the past 44 days on various news websites.
• Call me a creature of habit, but Google News continues to fit well into my workflow.
• The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports.
• But, the rush to lead in AI has changed the game, calling for unprecedented spending on data centers, energy generation and more.
• This redesign engendered significant complaints from regular users of the service.
• Look up stock prices, market data, and company information from Google Finance.

Google News index’s next pass found the link as new news, and Income Security Advisors found the Google result to be new news, which was passed along to Bloomberg News, where it was briefly a current headline and very widely viewed. In August 2011, the “News Archive Advanced Search” functionality was removed entirely, again generating complaints from regular users who found that the changes rendered the service unusable. This redesign engendered significant complaints from regular users of the service. The service has been integrated with Google Search History since November 2005. Users used to be able to customize the displayed sections, their location on the page, and how many stories are visible with a JavaScript-based drag and drop interface.

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